Beals ice cream from one of their several locations around Greater Portland

Crow, with coconut curry chicken poppers and a pitcher of beer, when your friend beats you bowling at Bayside Bowl (58 Alder St, Portland) on a rainy day.

A beer you've never tried before -- ask your server for a recommendation from the ever-rotating draught selection, or pick at random from more than 300 bottled choices -- on the deck at Novare Res (you should know where it is by now).

Local author Hannah Holmes, whose natural history of humans, The Well-Dressed Ape (Random House), I reviewed back in January,
is on a "viral campaign" to help market her book. I showed you the first
installment of her effort in February, and now, just in time for St. Patrick's Day, she's out with another clip of video from a reading.